The State of the Social Desktop 2009

Frank Karlitschek

KDE Developer

openDesktop.org / KDE-Look.org
GNOME-Look.org / KDE-Apps.org

Dienstag, 17. November 2009

Topics
• Motivation
• What is the Social Desktop ?
• Examples
• Open Collaboration Services
• Code Examples
• Roadmap
• Questions ?


Motivation


How can we make the Free
Desktop mainstream ?


Focus on our strong points


Use our Community !


• Bringing our Community to the Desktop
• Integrate Cloud Computing
• Transform users into Contributors
• Create Innovation which
Microsoft / Apple can´t deliver


but...


Open


• Not another Facebook
• Open Formats
• Open API
• No Lock-In to service provider or website
• Secure
• Strong Privacy
• Data Import/Export
• Scalable
• Technology Independent
• Easy to use


What is the Social
Desktop ?


Examples


personal proﬁle


friends


Users nearby


Knowledge Base


Fan of Application / Developer


Find other people with the
same hardware


KDE events
Showing interesting
near me


News about my friends, my town, my favorite
applications, ...


Content Upload and Download


Individual Application Integration


How do we do this ?


Open
Collaboration
Services


Open Collaboration Services
• Common API of the Social Desktop
• REST based
• Independend freedesktop.org standard
• SSL
• OpenID
• Scalable
• Strong privacy settings


Open Collaboration Services
Modules:

• USER (search, view)
• FRIENDS
• USERACTIVITIES
• MESSAGES
• CONTENT (Content Downloading / Uploding)
• KNOWLEDGE
• EVENTS
• NEPOMUK (in the future)


Provider 1

Provider
Desktop Provider 2
XML

Provider 3


Code Example
my newsfeed

api.opendesktop.org/v1/activities?page=0


<?xml version="1.0"?>
<ocs>
<meta>
<status>ok</status>
<message></message>
<totalitems>2</totalitems>
<itemsperpage>10</itemsperpage>
</meta>
<data>
<activity details="full">
<id>42</id>
<personid>testy2</personid>
<firstname>Test</firstname>
<lastname>Te</lastname>
<profilepage>/usermanager/search.php?username=testy2</profilepage>
<avatarpic>http://www.opendesktop.org/usermanager/nopic.png</avatarpic>
<timestamp>2008-08-01T20:30:19+02:00</timestamp>
<type>6</type>
<message>testy2 has updated: "Extract And Compress"</message>
<link>http://www.KDE-Look.org/content/show.php?content=84206</link>
</activity>
<activity details="full">
<id>43</id>
<personid>foobar2</personid>
<firstname>Foo</firstname>
<lastname>Bar</lastname>
<profilepage>/usermanager/search.php?username=foobar2</profilepage>
<avatarpic>http://www.opendesktop.org/usermanager/nopic.png</avatarpic>
<timestamp>2008-08-02T19:38:10+02:00</timestamp>
<type>6</type>
<message>foobar2 has updated: "Arezzo"</message>
<link>http://www.KDE-Look.org/content/show.php?content=84403</link>
</activity>
</data>
</ocs>


system
settings
Provider 1

App libattica Provider 2

Provider 3


Roadmap
• Nearly all shown features are in KDE 4.4
• GNOME
• Gwibber -> next month
• maemo.org
• forum.kde.org
• Groupware integration
• OpenOffice.org and others


Pointers
www.socialdesktop.org

techbase.kde.org/projects/socialdesktop

http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Speciﬁcations/open-
collaboration-services

social-desktop@kde.org


Questions ?


Thank you
Frank Karlitschek
karlitschek@kde.org
blog.karlitschek.de
twitter.com/fkarlitschek


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